Thursday, 31 October 2013

Halloween,
Samhain, All Hallows, All Saints or Hallow-Eve is the season of the Crone. In
ancient paganism, the word Crone denoted an elder priestess or tribal
matriarch; a cognate word is "crown," the symbol of a leader. The
word was made pejorative when the Christian Church redefined all elder
priestesses of the old religion as malevolent witches. Similarly, the word
"hag" was once derived from Greek hagia—a holy woman—and also
became a Christianized term for a witch.

The
divine Crone was originally a part of the trinitarian Goddess, who appeared in
Maiden, Mother and Crone forms, associated with the three phases of woman's
life, the three phases of the moon and the annual cycles of nature. Viewed as
an underworld deity who cared for the dead, the Goddess as Crone ruled autumnal
harvest festivals, when the spirits of dead ancestors could visit their
descendants and share in the harvest feast. Among the Celts, the well-known
"death's head at the feast" used to be an actual skull of an
ancestor, set at the table to receive offerings, often with a candle set within
it, to simulate the warmth of life and the light of vision. Such was the origin
of the jack-o-lantern.

Candy

"We still give
children candy at Halloween, but we have forgotten why."

In
southeast Asia, harvest customs still involve food offerings to ancestors at
the holiday known as the Feast of the Hungry Ghosts. In Mexico, it is called
the Day of the Dead, characterized by honoring the ancestors and feeding the
children little candy skulls as the memento mori. Feeding children treats on
holy days is a long-established human habit, originally designed not only to
make such occasions memorable for the children, but also to show visiting
tribal spirits that the next generation is here, needing their continued help
in maintaining the food supply for the tribe. We still give children candy at
Halloween, but we have forgotten why.

Skulls
and Masks

The
skull was an important symbol of the divine Crone, often envisioned as
her true face, veiled like everyone’s skull by the mask of flesh. Typically,
she was also hidden behind a black veil. Various traditions claimed that one
might see her true visage only in one’s final moments of life, not as in a
glass darkly, but then face to face....

Masks, covering the face, were
used in sacred drama and other ceremonies to represent the presence of deity.
To put on the mask, in ancient times, was often interpreted as a literal
assumption of the divine spirit that the mask embodied. The animal-headed
deities of ancient Egypt began as priests and priestesses wearing totemic
animal masks. The wolf and bear clans of northern Europe wore masks of the
appropriate animals for religious rites and considered themselves inwardly
possessed by their sacred beasts. Such traditions gave rise not only to common
surnames like Wolf and Baer, but also to legends of werewolves
("man-wolves") and berserkers (warriors who became possessed by
battle-frenzy when wearing the "bear sark" or bearskin).

"Mask wearing for
religious purposes has been common throughout history."

Mask
wearing for religious purposes has been common throughout history.... When
mask-wearing was associated with pagan ancestor worship and religious rituals
of the common people, it is hardly surprising to find it still extant in the
only pagan religious holiday that the Church never managed to pre-empt and turn
to its own use: Halloween.

Many
versions of the Crone Goddess coalesced into the churchmen’s image of the
"Queen of Witches"... Up to the 19th century, it was an official
Article of Faith of the Catholic Church to believe in the existence of an
underground "Queen of Witches," who usually had one of three possible
names: Hecate, Persephone or Lilith. All three of these were formerly Crone
figures of the original female Holy Trinity.

"Up
to the 19th century, it was an official Article of Faith of the Catholic Church
to believe in the existence of an underground 'Queen of Witches'..."

Hecate
and Persephone

A Greek
version of the ancient trinity was made up of Hebe, the springtime maiden (Roman
Flora); Hera, the Queen of Heaven and mother of the gods; and Hecate, the
Crone, ruler of the underworld of the dead. Hecate’s male consort was Hades
(Roman Pluto). Porphyry and other classical writers sometimes considered Hecate
the whole trinity, appearing as Hecate Selene, the new moon in heaven; Hecate
Artemis, the full-moon spirit of nature; and Hecate Persephone, the waning moon
representing death and the nether regions. She was worshipped at three-way
crossroads as Hecate Trevia, "Hecate of the Three Ways." Her images
stood at crossroads to receive offerings from travelers and gifts of gratitude
for safe journeys...

Though
Hecate was popular in Greco-Roman culture, she actually originated in Egypt as
the Crone Goddess Hekat, an amalgam of the seven obstetrical Hathors who daily
delivered the newborn sun....

"She was sometimes
perceived as the Crone form of the Cat Goddess Bast, whose priestesses were
also midwives and to whom black cats were sacred. Hence, the still
recognizably familiar 'familiar' of the witch."

Another
of the Church's favorite witch-queens was Proserpina, the Latin form of
Etruscan Persipnei and Greek Persephone. Classical mythology confused her with
Kore, the springtime Virgin, because the trinity of Kore-Demeter-Persephone was
actually cyclic. In the reworked myth, Persephone was the maiden abducted by
the underworld god (Hades or Pluto) and unwillingly made Queen of the
Underworld and forced to live underground during each winter season, when her
mother Demeter grieved for her and refused to let the earth bear fruit or
greenery until her daughter’s return in spring....

Gnostics
taught that newly dead souls would meet Persephone (or Proserpina) in the
underworld as soon as they crossed the River Styx. She would teach them the
"words of power" and magic rituals that they would need to insure a
comfortable afterlife. Knowledge of these matters was a primary purpose of
Gnostic initiation, even among Christian Gnostics, whose ideas were declared
heretical during the fifth century. Nevertheless, Gnostic traditions continued
to influence ordinary folk in secret for at least a thousand years more.

Lilith:
Queen of Witches

The
Semitic version of the Queen of Witches was Lilith or Lilit, known
in apocryphal writings as the first wife of Adam. It was said that she
abandoned Adam because he was too bossy and too crude in his sexual techniques.
She defied God and sneered at the angels that God sent to retrieve her. She
went away to the Red Sea and found more compatible male consorts, by whom she
conceived thousands of children. This detail identifies her as one of the
primary Earth Mother figures, who possessed the title of Mother of All Living,
later transferred to Eve.

"Lilith
[was] one of the primary Earth Mother figures, who possessed the title of
Mother of All Living, later transferred to Eve."

The name of Lilith first
appears on a 4,000-year-old tablet from Ur containing the "Sumerian
version of the Gilgamesh epic" called "Gilgamesh and the
Huluppu-Tree." She was known in Sumeria and Babylon as Belit-Ili, the Lily
Goddess.... Such she-demons were also called Night-Hags or Night-Mares, recalling
the black, mare-headed form of Demeter/Persephone as Crone (Demeter Chthonia,
"Underground Demeter").

In
northern Europe, the Night-Hags were witches known as Volvas, who could
shape-shift themselves into the form of mares between sunset and dawn. Lilith's
constellation of myths gave rise to Christianity’s crudest notions about
witches, not only their shape-shifting abilities and their animal familiars but
also their occult power over men's genitals, their alleged sexual insatiability
and their magical induction in humans of impotence or sexual enslavement. Such
fears lay at the root of the witch-hunting mania that took over Europe in the
12th and 13th centuries, and still lurk behind many forms of male violence
against women.

"Lilith's myths gave
rise to Christianity's crudest notions about witches, not only their
shape-shifting abilities and their animal familiars but also their occult power
over men's genitals."

Lilith's
sacred totem was the owl, the Wise Bird of the Crone, which explains why owls
still appear in Halloween symbolism.... The idea of the Crone Goddess underlies
all such Halloween symbols as the wise owl, the black cat, the ancestral ghost,
a glowing skull-lantern, the mask and costume, the gifts of food to children,
the sacred fires and the harvest feast. Perhaps the most important symbol was
the cauldron: a divine vessel, forever churning forth temporary life forms and
then reabsorbing them into its eternal stew....

The
Cauldron and the Soul

Shakespeare's Macbeth shows the three Weird
Sisters dancing around their sacred cauldron, singing "Round About the
Cauldron Go." They are none other than the old Saxon Triple-Goddess Wyrd,
whose name means "Fate" and who took all creatures into her fatal cauldron
to bring them forth again in new forms. That she was the death-bringing and
life-giving spirit of the earth is indisputable. Some form of the Cauldron
seems to have accompanied most of mythology’s Crone figures.

"The cauldron stood
for birth, nurture, destruction and death, cyclic redistribution going on
forever on a global scale, including everything from bacteria to the largest
organisms."

It was
quite a different concept from the Judeo-Christian one. The cauldron symbolized
the idea that just as thought is inseparable from brain, so spirit is
inseparable from body; the one is a function of the other. Native American
cultures, for example, viewed the whole environment of earth, air, waters,
plants and animals as sacred, because it was all part of their totemic
ancestor-worship. The spirits of all clan members became part of the
environment, just as the spirits of animals and plants that were eaten became
part of the eater. So in a spiritual sense as much as in a material one, there
was constant interchange between self and environment. Gods, ancestors,
saviors, animal spirits and living humans all were part of the same mix. Hidden
in this concept lie the familiar superstitions that claim gods or devils can
take human form and vice versa, or that humans can be made into saints or
demigods simply by the use of human words and magical formulae....

The
ancient view was somewhat more eco-logical, more egalitarian and certainly more
compatible with modern knowledge of natural processes. In the Crone's cauldron,
"soul" becomes synonymous with "life force," characteristic
of all organisms rather than the exclusive property of humans. Matter was one
with its creatress and linguistic derivative, Mater, Mother, the material of
everything. Mother love, which the Hindus called karuna, was the basis of all
feeling and morality....

If this
ancient view had stayed with us, instead of being condemned and obliterated by
patriarchal religion, we might have very different attitudes toward death and
dying, body and spirit, self and other, even good and evil. Since religion is,
in large part, humanity’s effort to deal with the inevitability of death, the
philosophical implications of this change were enormous. Perhaps the earlier
views were more sensible after all.

"What would churches
be today, if they had not so profitably driven the public mule with the carrot
of heaven and the stick of hell?"

What
would churches be today, if they had not so profitably driven the public mule
with the carrot of heaven and the stick of hell? Freed from its collective
dream/nightmare of both carrot and stick, the human creature might have gone in
different directions and understood Halloween, the Season of the Crone, in
entirely different ways. The Crone reminds us that religion-induced fear of
death wastes our powers, while an honest acknowledgement that life must end may
be the best incentive to true enjoyment of being alive.

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Wednesday, 30 October 2013

Ultrasound has become routine during
pregnancy over the last 3 decades. It is assumed to be safe, though safety was
never investigated. Research is now finally being done, and the results are
dismal, demonstrating clear and permanent brain damage, as shown in this study.
Nearly all babies have been damaged to varying degrees, resulting in abnormal
neurology becoming the norm.

by Heidi
Stevenson

That delightful
ultrasound look at a fetus months before birth is a huge thrill—but that’s the only benefit. That
thrill comes at a risk, one that it’s hard to imagine any parent would be
willing to take if the facts were presented. Ultrasound causes brain damage and
can even kill the fetus. This is not a supposition. It’s been clearly
documented, and exactly what it does to the developing brain is understood.

Manuel Casanova M.D., a
neurologist who holds an endowed chair at the University of Louisville in
Kentucky, contends that Rakic’s mice research helps confirm a disturbing
hypothesis that he and his colleagues have been testing for the last three
years: that ultrasound exposure is an environmental factor directly
contributing to the exponential rise in autism.[1]

The Study

Dr. Pasko Rakic is the
lead researcher for the study documenting that ultrasound damages mouse brains.[2] It shows that the
process of brain development is disturbed in mice. Though it’s easy to suggest
that this is “only” a study on mice, so doesn’t prove anything about humans,
that’s not true. The method of development in mouse brains is exactly the same
in all mammals. Therefore, if ultrasound has an adverse effect on mouse brains,
then it must also have the same effect on human brains.

The Brain’s
Cellular Organization

Brain cells are not
arranged in a random manner. The brain’s gray matter controls muscles, sensory perception,
emotion, and memory. Gray matter cells form columns, which can function as a
unit. The cells are also arranged in rows that are parallel to the surface of
the brain. You can think of the brain’s cells as being arranged in a grid, like
a graph. Each cell forms part of both a column and a row, though the row is
actually curved to match the surface of the brain.

If developing cells do
not end up where they should, behavioral problems and epilepsy can arise from
the misarrangement. It’s obvious that anything capable of causing such
misarrangement can produce disabilities. Therefore, Dr. Rakic’s study is particularly
disturbing.

Brain Cell
Migration

A fetus’s neurons are
formed in the area just above the cerebellum, sometimes called the “primitive brain”, and they
progress toward the outer surface of the brain. During the process, they are
moved outward, parallel to the brain’s surface. The study report goes into
some detail about how this process happens, but for our purposes, there’s no
need to address it.

How and when this process
occurs is well understood, though the means by which cells move radially, away
from the column in which they start, is not well understood. What is known,
though, is that the process is very sensitive and can be affected by many
biological, physical, and chemical agents. The authors state:

The numbers in
parentheses identify study references documenting things that can result in
displacement of neurons and the results.

The study provides a
graphic representation of how this migration functions and malfunctions under
ultrasound. The ovals represent neurons. They’re produced at the bottom, where
single neurons are shown. The red ones have been labeled on day 16 of
gestation. The top row (A-D) shows normal migration. The bottom row (E-H) shows
abnormal migration of red (BrdU-labeled) neurons that were formed on day
16 of gestation, when ultrasound was applied.

The left-hand images (A
& E) show day 16 of gestation (E16). The next ones (B & F) show day 17
of gestation (E17). The last images (D & H) show the final placement of
neurons at birth (P1).

Notice that all the red
neurons on the top row move upward in a consistent manner and form a single row
(A-D). However, neurons that have received ultrasound often move at slower rates
(F). The next batch of neurons catches up with many of them (G). The result of
the the neurons receiving ultrasound, shown in red, are often displaced, with
some not even reaching the cortex of the brain on the day of birth (H).

Sound Waves Equivalent to Human Fetus Exposure

Pregnant mice were given
doses of ultrasound for times ranging from 5 to 420 minutes. As shown in the
image to the right, the pregnant mice were placed in glass tubes with cutouts
to deliver ultrasound to their fetuses. An acoustic gel was applied to the
posterior half of the mouse and a water bag was placed on the side opposite the
ultrasound device to minimize any sound wave reflection or standing waves that
could affect the ultrasound application.

An ultrasound device that
had been used on humans. Extensive testing was done to avoid interference and
assure that the exposure of fetuses to the ultrasound was minimal. The results
of these tests are provided by the authors on the publisher’s site.

The label on the graphic
reading “tsp” stands for tissue standoff pad. The head of the ultrasound device
was placed a distance from the mouse’s skin to assure that the fetuses received
sound waves equivalent to those that a human fetus receives.

Method

146 mice were treated
with ultrasound and 141 controls were run through exactly the same process, but without actually receiving
ultrasound. Another 30 mice were also included as “normal” controls, but we’ll
ignore them because they don’t affect the primary results.

On the 16th
day of their pregnancies, the mice were injected with BrdU, which stained
only the newly produced cells. The mice were treated with ultrasound on
days 17-19, the 3 days following BrdU injection. All samples were
processed by technicians blinded to their control-ultrasound status.

On day 10 after birth,
the young mice were killed and brain slices were taken for analysis. These were
stained and processed, then viewed under microscropes, photographed, and
analyzed. Grids, which the researchers called bins, were drawn on top of images
to aid in the analyses.

The results of a 60 minute exposure is shown in this
graphic. The control is on the left, labeled A, C, D, and E. The results of the
mouse that had received ultrasound is on the right, labeled B, F, G, and H. The
top two images show the locations of the slices.

Neurons stained green
with BrdU, which means they were newly formed on the 16th day after
conception, and the others are stained red. The six images below A and B are
photos of the slices.

Images C and F show only
the red stained neurons, which pre-existed the green-stained BrdU neurons.

The middle images, D and
G, show the same information as C and F, but with the green BrdU-stained
neurons added in. It’s easy to see that the control neurons are more clustered
at the top of the cortex than those of the ultrasound-treated neurons in green.

Look at images E and H.
Here, the difference between controls and ultrasound-treated neurons is even
more obvious. Only the neurons that had been stained green with BrdU are shown.
Notice that nearly all the control neurons made their way to level 3 or 4 of
the 10 bins. Far fewer of the ultrasound-treated neurons reached levels 3 and
4. A large number reached only levels 5 and 6. Worse, though, a significant
proportion hardly moved upward at all, remaining stuck at levels 1 and 2.

Finally, notice the arrow
heads in H. One is in bin 7 and two are in bin 10. Bin 7 is located below the
cortex. It’s in a deeper white matter area. These neurons did not even reach
the cortex. Worse, though, are all these ultrasound-treated neurons still
sitting in the bottom layer, a particularly worrisome situation. The study
states that these neurons:

… formed a distinct
band near the lateral cerebral ventricle that resemble periventricular
ectopias. When these ectopic BrdU cells occurred, it was easy to
distinguish the exposed brains from the control brains, even upon visual
inspection of the immunostained sections.

Ectopias are abnormal
positions of body parts or organs, especially at birth. These ectopias were so
severe that they can be seen without a microscope—an indication of severe brain
damage.

Quantitative
Analysis

The example above is a
single sample from the study, but there were 287 mice in it. The numbers for each of the exposure
times were:

420 minutes: 7 controls, 7 received ultrasound

210 minutes: 14 controls, 14 received
ultrasound

60 minutes: 32 controls, 29 received
ultrasound

30 minutes: 35 controls, 35 received
ultrasound

15 minutes: 33 controls, 39 received
ultrasound

5 minutes: 20 controls, 22 received ultrasound

The graphs display the
percent of neurons that remained in the bottom five bins, numbers 6-10, which
means that they traveled less distance toward the brain’s surface.

Unfortunately, the 210
minute results are anomalous and the researchers offer no explanation. However,
close examination shows some support for it. The percentage of 60-minute
control mouse neurons that remained in bins 6-10 is less than for 30 minutes.
It may be that something happens in the 30-210 minute exposure range that
results in a variance.

The dispersion of neurons
is similar for controls and ultrasound-exposed mice at 5 and 15 minutes, though
there was a slightly higher dispersal amount in the ultrasound-exposed mice. At
30 minutes, though, the distinction starts to become significant:

At durations of 420 min,
it is possible that the stress of this long exposure leads to increased
cell dispersion above the normal control condition. However, it is
difficult to completely assess durations of 420 min and above because
some pups from USW-exposed mothers were either resorbed
or cannibalized at birth (Table 1). In fact, no pups survived to P10 [10
days after birth] in pregnant mice exposed to 600 min of USW, although the
sham control mouse gave birth to a full litter that survived until P10.

Put simply, they were
saying that when mouse pups were exposed to 420 minutes of ultrasound, some of
them did not survive. They were either absorbed before birth or born dead or
nonviable, and therefore cannibalized by their mothers. They also subjected
some mouse fetuses to 600 minutes of ultrasound. None
of the fetuses survived that much ultrasound exposure. All died by the 10th
day after birth. However, none of the fetuses of the
control group died.

Partial
Conclusion

This study shows that
ultrasound waves directed at a fetus interfere with brain development by
causing displacement of neurons. Such displacement is known to result in behavioral problems and are
either known or suspected of causing other neurological problems.

Dr. Rakic and his team
have produced a powerful study that clearly demonstrates brain damage produced
by ultrasound. This prenatal test has become so routine that some doctors do
screenings at every visit. Though individual procedures don’t take 3½ to 7
hours (210-420 minutes), it’s easy to see that a baby could easily be exposed
to an aggregate of that much. Such results need to be taken seriously.

There’s even more to know
about ultrasound during pregnancy—such as the fact that it doesn’t even produce
any benefits. This, and more about prenatal ultrasound are discussed in
the next article, Ultrasound Causes Brain Damage in Fetuses: Implications.

I highly recommend
Dr. Margulis’ book, The
Business of Baby, which will soon be reviewed here on Gaia Health –Heidi
Stevenson:

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